Movie Box Office

This has notably been an unfortunate summer for sequels, but when crafting a box office formula for success, one thing that really helps is keeping the budget down. That's what Annabelle: Creation managed to do, and it's now earned the top spot domestically.

August is notoriously not a great movie month. With expectations for ticket sales already low in general, studios typically use the four weeks to release features not worthy of release in any other point on the calendar.

There are so very many Spider-Man movies that have been made over the last several years that the newest entry doesn't even need to compete with the rest of the superhero genre at the box office. It can just compete with itself.

Writer/director Christopher Nolan is no stranger to being at the top of the box office, and nearly three years after the release of Interstellar he's claimed that position once again with his new World War II epic Dunkirk. Check out the full chart below!

This weekend saw a big time showdown between War For The Planet Of The Apes and Spider-Man: Homecoming, and much like Caesar leading his simian friends to victory, Matt Reeves' blockbuster wound up taking the top spot at the box office. Check out the full Top 10 chart inside!

On the big screen, Spider-Man has been rebooted three times in the last decade, and as a result there were some concerns that fans might not flock to Jon Watts' Spider-Man: Homecoming quite like past features starring Marvel's famous wall-crawler. Those concerns were unfounded!

Christopher Nolan's World War II movie Dunkirk is set to open in a couple of weeks and will try to find its place among the rest of the summer movie season. We now have an early idea of where the film could start out at the box office.

Storytelling, not franchise building, should be at the forefront of movie making. This weekend The Mummy proved that focusing on the latter at the expense of the former can (and should) spell box office mediocrity.